Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques

A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition | Date: 2005

Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques (1796–1874) Belgian statistician; first developed the index of weight/height²; now usually called body mass index, but also known as Quetelet's index.


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